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In this interview, founder and director Rob Mueller recounts the impact of not owning fastmail.com for 15 years, how the negotiations started and progressed, how much they paid, and lessons learned for other startup entrepreneurs.

Mike Navarini shares tactics for buying domain names for next to nothing and selling them for thousands. If you're just starting out as a domain name investor or you want to add an almost no-risk way to invest to your game plan, you will want to watch this interview and on-screen tutorial.

Buy a domain name for up to $300 and sell it on average for $3,000. Seems like a straightforward and highly desirable business model, but how do you actually find good names and then put them in front of buyers? Michael Krell's story of turning a $1,000 investment into a $100,000 revenue stream is one that many of us aspire to. He lays out his approach in detail in this show.

Owning the short, single-word, aspirational domain name Wish.co.uk allowed Richard Kernshaw and his business partner to "punch above their weight" – making connections, doing deals and selling more than $1 million in day experiences with a small team.

What is a brandable domain name and why is the average selling price between $2,000 and $4,000 on BrandBucket.com? Founder Margot Bushnaq shares her knowledge about what makes a great brandable domain name and how – if you’re a domain name investor – you can list them for sale on BrandBucket.com.

Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie and Freemarket.com Product Manager Jimmy Young share some information about the newly launched Freemarket.com marketplace and how investors can be make use of parent-website Freelancer.com to develop their prized domain name assets.

Are you concerned you're leaving money on the table by not listing your domain names in the right online marketplaces? You probably are. This tutorial walks you through a 10-step process to list your domain names for sale at major marketplaces.

This is the story of Statement.com and how in nine months Braden Pollock turned a $9,200 purchase into a $140,000 sale. Learn how skilled domain name investors bought low and sold high turning a profit of at least five figures in under 12 months.

In this interview, you will learn how PetPremium.com launched, made the transition to issuing policies, mistakes they made along the way and how they recovered, as well as some very useful information about conversion rates, the monetary value of leads in the insurance industry and more.

Google is spending part of their billions in profits on 100 new top-level domains and launching a new registrar, Google Domains. In this presentation, given at Google I/O 2014, Google provides an overview of their domain name plans for the future.

The holy grail of owning a premium domain name is being able to sell an endless of supply of either email addresses or third-level domain names – in essence, acting like a domain name registry but without the regulatory burden. But as Left of the Dot co-founder and CMO John Lyotier explains in this video, the task is a difficult one. His company has navigated this territory before, and he offers both insights and a better model for producing revenue.

If billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks exact-match domain names are worth investing in, shouldn’t you consider them for your business?

The Chinese government evaluated all the new Chinese character top-level domains (TLDs) and decided that dot Chinese online (.在线) and dot Chinese website (.中文网) would earn their support and investment. Should it earn yours too?

Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu, the co-founders of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name industry conference, join Michael Cyger to discuss T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West taking place May 28th through May 31st, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This DomainSherpa tutorial by Michael Cyger walks you through one process for evaluating new TLDs to find valuable domain names for registration using keyword search volume and advertiser competition.

We all lose money when first starting out in domain name investing, because part of the process of figuring things out inevitably includes buying worthless or undesirable domain names. But instead of just buying 100 or so worthless domain names, he invested in a “domain name education” that cost him about $300,000 over three years until he realized what he was doing wrong. Listen in as Andrew Rosener shares what he learned from his expensive education.

If you think you can file a UDRP case to get control of a domain name after failing to negotiate the acquisition, think again. Unless you can prove the three UDRP criteria, you may be labeled a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker by an international legal panel, face public documentation of the finding, and be exposed to potential legal action.

Every day new domain name investors and speculators overlook the financial risk associated with registering a domain name that infringes on an existing trademark – a mistake that could cost them more than $100,000. If you’re a new domain name investor or speculator, learn how to avoid the mistake that could cost you $100,000.

Many believe the .CO registry is the "poster child" for how a new top-level domain answers all the above questions and is succeeding in the minds of individuals, businesses and entrepreneurs. That makes the top-level domain a better investment than many, if not most, other top-level domains other than .com. With new gTLDs going live every week for the upcoming couple of years, this interview contains critical information that both new registry operators and investors alike should familiarize themselves with.

When DomainSherpa produced the first domain name meetup in Seattle, DNSeattle, it was a no-brainer to invite Northern Idaho-based Luke Webster of The Shave Network to keynote on how he built a business on an exact-match domain name – including his experience and how his business has grown in the last year.